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CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Mar 3, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

CNN -- Most Israeli tanks and troops pulled out of northern Gaza early Monday, and an Israel Defense Forces spokesman confirmed that the military was ending its five-day offensive operation. The attacks targeted Palestinian militants who launched dozens of rocke.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Dec 18, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

MSNBC -- The Turkish army sent soldiers about 1.5 miles into northern Iraq in an overnight operation on Tuesday, Kurdish officials said. A Turkish official said the troops were still in Iraq by midmorning. Meanwhile, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made an.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri Oct 19, 2007 @ 12:05pm neoform

BBC News -- The president of the Kurdish region in northern Iraq has said his people will defend themselves if Turkey attacks Kurdish rebels based in the region. Massoud Barzani rejected accusations that his government provided cover for Kurdish Workers Party (PKK.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon May 7, 2007 @ 12:49pm neoform

Independent -- The stoning to death of a teenage girl belonging to the Yazidi religious sect because she fell in love with a Muslim man has led to a spiral of violence in northern Iraq in which 23 elderly factory workers have been shot dead and 800 Yazidi students force.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Apr 23, 2007 @ 12:56am neoform

CNN -- Gunmen shot and killed 23 members of an ancient religious sect in northern Iraq after stopping their bus and separating out followers of other faiths, while car bombings in the capital killed at least another 20 people. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, i.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Sun Apr 22, 2007 @ 3:47pm neoform

SF Gate -- Gunmen in northern Iraq stopped a bus filled with Christians and members of a tiny, mostly Kurdish religious sect on Sunday, police said, separating out the groups and taking 23 of the passengers away to be shot. The attack came on a violent day in Bag.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri May 9, 2008 @ 8:26am neoform

BBC News -- The United States military in Iraq says a man detained in the northern city of Mosul is not in fact the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq. An earlier statement from the Iraqi defence ministry said that al-Masri had been captured. But an American military s.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Mar 13, 2008 @ 8:21am neoform

BBC News -- Israeli aircraft have attacked the northern Gaza Strip after Palestinian militants fired rockets into Israel. The violence follows several days of relative calm in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The Israeli air force said it was targeting a rocke.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Mar 3, 2008 @ 8:17am neoform

BBC News -- Serbia has retaken control of a stretch of railway line in northern Kosovo, a senior Serb official has said. Branislav Ristivojevic, who heads Serbia's state-run railway company, said Belgrade had restored control over the 50km (30-mile) Lesak-Zvecan l.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Dec 18, 2007 @ 8:13am neoform

CNN -- U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made an unannounced visit to Iraq on Tuesday and dropped in on the volatile northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, a U.S. Embassy spokesman in Baghdad confirmed. She then visited Baghdad to meet with Iraqi officials and wi.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Nov 6, 2007 @ 8:12am neoform

CNN -- Turkey's president said Tuesday his country "has decided" on how to proceed against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq and had informed the United States. The U.S. and Iraq have been pressing Turkey to avoid a major cross-border attack on Kurdish Workers'.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Nov 1, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

BBC News -- Turkey, Iraq and the US have all taken steps to combat the threat of Kurdish fighters based in northern Iraq and defuse the crisis in the region. The Turkish government has announced economic sanctions against groups which support those responsible for.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Oct 29, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

SF Gate -- A low-slung concrete building off a steep mountain road marks the beginning of rebel territory in this remote corner of northern Iraq. The fighters based here, Kurdish militants fighting Turkey, fly their own flag, and despite urgent international call.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Oct 17, 2007 @ 8:25am neoform

BBC News -- MPs in Turkey are due to debate a motion authorising cross-border military operations into northern Iraq to target Kurdish rebel bases there. Parliament in Ankara is expected to approve the motion by a large majority amid widespread public support for.. Read More

CONFLICTS / OPINION Tue Sep 11, 2007 @ 2:24pm neoform

Time -- A mysterious incident involving Israeli jets over northern Syria last week has revived fears of war between Israel and Syria, just as months of tension between the bitter foes had appeared to be subsiding. The Israeli government is maintaining a rigid —.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Sep 10, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

SF Gate -- A U.S. air strike killed a man suspected of directing the Aug. 14 truck bombings in northern Iraq that caused the deaths of more than 400 people, the deadliest single terrorist attack since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, military officials said Su.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Aug 15, 2007 @ 8:23am neoform

BBC News -- At least 200 people have been killed in a series of bombings apparently aimed at a Kurdish religious minority group in northern Iraq, officials say. Some 200 more were reported injured as at least four blasts hit areas home to the Yazidi sect near the.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Aug 15, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

SF Gate -- At least 175 people were killed and 200 wounded Tuesday by four truck bombs in a massive coordinated attack against members of a small religious sect, the Yazidis, in northern Iraq, the Iraqi army said. The nearly simultaneous explosions in three Yazid.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Jul 9, 2007 @ 4:35pm neoform

Yahoo News -- Turkey has massed 140,000 soldiers on its border with northern Iraq, Iraq's foreign minister said Monday, calling the neighboring country's fears of Kurdish rebels based there "legitimate" but better resolved through negotiation. In Washington, a Penta.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Sun Jun 17, 2007 @ 10:38pm neoform

FOX News -- Two Katyusha rockets fired from Lebanon fell on northern Israel Sunday afternoon, police and the military said. No one was hurt, but there was some damage, they said. They were the first rockets fired from Lebanon since last summer's war between Israel.. Read More